Damage growth

Figure 6. Three stages of the fatigue damage growth in composite laminates [2]...

Because of the many types of damage and damage growth in composite materials, the initial state of the material is difficult, if not impossible, to characterize. Moreover, it is much more difficult to formulate a boundary-value problem to describe crack propagation in composite materials than in metals. 

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Removal of dead, diseased and damaged growth always cut well back Into healthy wood. 

Uniaxial tensile tests were carried out to determine the stress-strain curves and document the damage growth on a computer-controlled Instron model 8516 servo hydraulic testing machine operating at a strain rate of 5% min . The macroscopic tensile yield stress was considered equal to the maximum stress on the loading curve. The Young s modulus was determined as the plateau value of a plot of the secant modulus as a function of the strain. 

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Temperature extremes and air pollution can t be controlled. On woody plants, pruning off damaged growth and providing extra fertilizer and. t ater may help the plant recover from damage. If too much sun or shade seems to be the problem, try moving the affected plant to a different light level, if possible. 

Davila CG, Ambur DR, McGowan DM. Analytical prediction of damage growth in notched composite panels loaded in compression. J Aircr 2000 37(5) 898—905. 

Chen AS, Almond DP, Harris B. Impact damage growth in composites under fatigue conditions monitored by acoustography. Int J Fat 2002 24 257-61. 

In the case of continuous damage growth, which will be observed at higher fatigue load levels, a continuous increase in specimen temperature is also measured. Figure 5.15(a) shows the temperature change for four different tests. All tests were performed until specimen rupture occurred. A continuous temperature increase can be observed throughout the tests. This corresponds to the parallel observation of transverse crack development... 

Sivashanker S, Damage growth in carbon fibre PEEK unidirectional composites under compression. Mater Sci Eng A- Structural Materials Properties Microstructure and Processing, 249(1-2), 259-276,1998. 

Data represented by curves C and D are recorded mostly for polymeric composites. Of these, C accounts for the case of rapidly increasing fluid content, which is usually accompanied by damage growth that leads to material break down, large deformations, as well as occasional failure. 

The above models fail to account for moisture-affected damage growth criteria, though limited attention to that issue was provided by correlating damage with residual stresses during exposure to cyclic humidity (Guo and Weitsman 2002)... 

Agastra, P. Mandell, J. F. Testing and Simulation of Damage Growth at Ply Drops in Wind Turbine Blade Laminates. Presented at the Society lor the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering, Seattle, Washington (USA), May 17-20,2010 Paper 398. 

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